NEWS POSTED FEBRUARY 28, 2007 NY Comic-Con: Dark Horse Panel '07 Dark Horse Comics’ resident horror guru, editor Scott Allie, revealed more news about the upcoming Buffy: Season 8 comic-book run that begins next week: *Dark Horse ended the original Buffy monthly when the TV series ended because, they "didn’t have a direction without Joss telling us where to go." *Drew Goddard, from the television series, is writing the third arc. *Brian K. Vaughan's arc will focus on Faith, in England avoiding her responsibilities, when Giles finds her and needs her to deal with a rogue slayer. *An artist has not yet been chosen for Goddard’s storyline,which will be set partly in Japan. *Paul Lee is returning, set to be the artist for Joss' stand-alone issue #5. *Originally planned to be 20 issues long, the vision for this project has expanded to include over 30 chapters. Whedon plans to do at least one third of the final issue count. Buffy #1 Delayed Dark Horse announced that the release date for the first issue has been pushed back till the 14th of March due to a printing error. Georges Jeanty revealed to us exclusively that the second issue will feature Giant Dawn attempting to take a bath. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #1 is poised to be a huge seller. Initial orders for the first issue are 80,000, and sales should easily go above the 100,000 mark. Dark Horse is also planning another Serenity series by Whedon. Click Here to read iFMagazine's advanced review of Buffy #1. NEWS POSTED FEBRUARY 24, 2007 Preview: Spike: Shadow Puppets covers The Lying In The Gutters column at CBR released a preview of 3 of the upcoming covers for the Spike: Shadow Puppets mini-series. Click on the thumbnails below for to view the full images.   Buffy Season 8 News Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1: The Long Way Home has received an 'A-' review from Entertainment Weekly. Wizard Magainze #186, which comes out Feb 28 2007, will be be running a story on Buffy Season 8 , which promises to reveal more secrets. TV Blog has released an advanced review of Buffy #1, along with a sneak peak of events that bring back Amy the Witch into the fold. Click Here to read the review. NEWS POSTED FEBRUARY 19, 2007 Buffy Is My Life Essay Contest Since Buffy entered your life, things have never been quite the same. Now the tides have turned and it's your chance to finally enter her world! Let Dark Horse know how Buffy has affected your life in 250 words or less and, if selected, you could end up appearing in an upcoming issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8. Winner to be selected by Joss Whedon himself!!! Click Here to enter. Slaying Alive: Whedon Talks BtVS Comic. For Whedon, the new Buffy series isn't about making cash; it's a chance for him to have some fun with some of his signature creations. "I expect it to sell dozens and dozens of copies. I don't make sales expectations," Whedon told CBR News. Click Here to read the article. In other news, another advanced review of Buffy #1 has been released at Forever Geek. Click Here to read it (beware if you want to remain spoiler-free). SlayAlive Forums The Comic Book Guide to Buffy presents one our newest affiliate, the "Slay: Alive Fanbase Forum" which is growing in numbers, and is partially devoted to Buffy Season 8. Click Here to redirect. NEWS POSTED FEBRUARY 12, 2007 Sneak Peak at Buffy Season 8 Xander at command central headquarters located in Scotland Solicitation for Runaways #26 “DEAD END KIDS” The kids continue their New York adventure and encounter someone dangerous that they’ve never met before. Hint—LOOK BEHIND MOLLY ON THE COVER. Will he punish the Runaways? Superstar Joss Whedon (Buffy, ASTONISHING X-MEN) and rising star Michael Ryan (NEW X-MEN, NEW EXCALIBUR) continue a tale that will take the Runaways somewhere they’ve never been before! PART 2 (of 6)! NEWS POSTED FEBRUARY 7, 2007 Joss Whedon's Geekly Interview In this exclusive several part interview with GeekMonthly.com, Joss discusses his heavy involvement in the comics world and reveals more about the upcoming Buffy Season 8 comic. Click Here to view it. In a different interview with VH1, Joss Whedon explained his reason for bring Buffy back from the dead: "I was trying to put together TV movies and different venues to use characters I loved writing and then the comic thing happened almost accidentally. Dark Horse was interested in reviving the comic, and I started thinking about it. I had sort of lost my other avenues of storytelling. I thought, "There's no reason why I can't continue the story here." And then my brain exploded. I started having all these ideas and grand plans and no free time whatsoever. The show was very mundane, deliberately mundane. There were many things we couldn't afford to do, but there were also certain things we wouldn't do, whereas a comic has got to work on a grander scale. We really can take the characters wherever we want -- and of course that means I can kill them." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Omnibus Vol. 1 As reported back in November, Dark Horse will be collecting the entire BtVs Vol. 1 series in six or seven Omnibus volume. The first volume will be released July 18th. It will collect the BtVs mini-series, The Origin, issues #51-63 of the BtVs monthly, as well as the Spike & Dru one-shot, "All's Fair," as well as the Dust Waltz TPB. Click Here to read Dark Horse' full solicitation for the volume. Art of Angel: The Premiere Collection Never found all those variant Angel or Spike covers you wanted? No problem! IDW brings all the covers, variant art, and photo incentives together and presents it to you in this handsome oversize hardcover collector's edition. Includes all the art from The Curse, Old Friends, the five Angel Spotlights, Masks, Auld Lang Syne, and Spike stories like Spike vs. Dracula, Asylum, Old Wounds, Old Times and Lost & Found. Artists include comics luminaries like John Byrne, Igor Kordey, Sean Phillips, longtime Angel artist David Messina, Franco Urru, and many more. This 160-page collection will be released in May 2007 for a retail price of $75. NEWS POSTED FEBRUARY 5, 2007 Solicitation for Buffy the Vampire Slayer #3 With Buffy incapacitated, Amy the witch has taken the opportunity to-get this-lay siege with an army of the undead. Willow takes her on in a witches' battle royal as hundreds of Slayers defend their Scottish citadel, but without the kiss of true love, Buffy will be out of commission indefinitely-with an unwelcome familiar face, and an image you won't soon forget. In other Season 8 news, Newsarama's "Best Shots" crew released an early review of Buffy Season 8 #1. Click Here to read it. Spike IDW Publishing News   IDW Publishing has revealed the real cover for Spike: Shadow Puppets #1, which sees sees Spike and Lorne heading off to Japan to stop the latest Japanese kids' show—Smile Time! Will they become "puppetized" themselves? And along the way, find themselves in a fight with hundreds of ninja-puppets, reuniting with fellow Asylum inmates, and be at extreme odds with one other? We're not telling (but, um, yes)! IDW has also revealed that David Messina will be providing variant covers for this limited series. Click Here to view it. Runaways #25 Preview Click Here to view the first four pages off Joss Whedon's upcoming run on Marvel Comics' Runaways, which comes out on April 4th. NEWS POSTED FEBRUARY 1, 2007 Re-Buffed: Joss Whedon talks to MTV about Buffy Season 8 In their interview with Joss Whedon, MTV revealed more spoilers aboiut the upcoming comic, which hits stands March 07th, 2007. Click Here to read it. Franco Urro's Alternate Spike Cover Brian Lynch's MySpace page revealed Franco Urro's inks to the cover of Spike: Asylum #5, which comes out February 07, 2007. Click Here to see the cover. NEWS POSTED JANUARY 23, 2007 Spike: Shadow Puppets The team who brought you Spike: Asylum are returning for another Spike series, this time Spike: Shadow Puppets, where Spike goes up against ninja puppets ala Angel Season 5 episode, "Smile Time." Click Here to preview. NEWS POSTED JANUARY 16, 2007 Sneak Peak At Upcoming Buffy Cover The Buffy Zone has a Willow wallpaper available for download, which is drawn by Jo Chen, and most likely is the cover to issue #3. Astonishing X-Men News Joss Whedon's "Unstoppable" arc on Astonishing X-Men rages on in July with part 4 of 6 in issue #22. The X-Men are on the run on Breakworld. Can they keep the warlords of Breakworld from killing Colossus? If his life means the destruction of an entire planet, SHOULD they save him? NEWS POSTED JANUARY 13, 2007 Jo Chen News Buffy Season 8 Cover artist Jo Chen has revamped her website. It can be viewed by Clicking Here. She is also the cover artist on Joss Whedon's other title, Marvel Comics' Runaways. To view her MySpace page, Clicking Here. Solicitation for Runaways #25 Marvel Comics has released information for Joss Whedon's Runaways #25, in stores in April 2007. The kids start running in a different direction. Superstar JOSS WHEDON and rising star MICHAEL RYAN (NEW EXCALIBUR, NEW X-MEN) take the Runaways to the Big Apple. While there, they make surprising allies and even more surprising enemies. This is the cannot-miss book of 2007! NEWS POSTED JANUARY 12, 2007 Solicitation for Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2 The destruction of Buffy's hometown, plus covert and powerful slayer "cells" around the world, add up to a new label for the Scoobies: Terrorist threat. Speaking of Sunnydale, the crater formerly known as, has opened to reveal the witch Amy, and boy is she pissed. Now: Giles, smoochies, a knife to the heart, and a big sleep. Season Eight continues. The publication date for this issue is April 04th, 2007. Buffy an "Entertainment Weekly Big Event for 07" Buffy Season 8 comic checks in at number 8 on the Top 20 Big Events EW anxiously awaits in 2007. Click Here for more. Server Crash Apologies to everyone for our week-long absence, the HMC server crashed last saturday and all the files stored on it were lost. But now we're back, and Buffy Season 8 is only a few months away! NEWS POSTED JANUARY 03, 2007 Unpublished Angel Cover IDW Publishing released an unpublished variant Angel cover by Ben Templesmith, known in the comic book industry most notably for his work on 30 Days of Night. Click Here to view the image. The Buffy Zone Returns The return of the Buffy section on Dark Horse's website is topped off with an insight from Scott Allie on how the Buffy season 8 comic book came to be. Click Here to view it. NEWS & UPDATES ARCHIVES All Previous Article Entries This isn't all for the Comic Book Guide to BtVs' News Updates - you can read the rest by clicking on one of the below links! Page 1... Page 2... Page 3... Page 4... Page 5... Page 6... Page 7... Page 8... Page 9... Page 10...

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